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Wise Readers, Last week, I asked you: Do you want to be asked before someone kisses you in a new relationship? How about an established relationship? What if the questions referred to your own teenage child?
Why the heck would I want to know?!
Because surprisingly, there’s not much scientific enquiry about kissing. Just a lot of assumptions. And your Survey responses, plus other relationship research, helps take what we know about Kissing—our own, our kids’—to the next level.

It’s only natural to be curious about others’ sex lives. The quick 7-item questionnaire at this link (http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NCBDGPX ) is about sexual quantity and quality. As always, it’s anonymous—I won’t know who you are unless you tell me, and even if you tell me, your name will be altered or deleted so that nobody else knows. Results will be published next week, along with results per the social science. Thank you!

Wise Readers,
What if someone married or male had asked me Tricia’s question about getting rid of a rival? Would a man use the same techniques as a woman? Should a woman with children ‘dump the chump’, as I advised Tricia? And what did the Survey answers say on Question 3?
Read on!

Wise Readers,
Sometimes, an outsider—an old flame, a new flame, an unknown, an all-too-known—makes a play for our partner. Maybe it’s someone throwing themselves at our husband, or wife, or boyfriend, or girlfriend; maybe it’s subtler than that. But whether the interloper is representing as just-a-friend or an open threat, our Spidey Senses are suddenly on red alert…What do you think a person should do in that situation—if anything? Take the questionnaire—this week only:

Wise Readers,
This week and next, I’m asking you to participate in a survey that will form the basis for an upcoming LoveScience article about people’s feelings towards getting emotionally close and interdependent with others. The questionnaire is just 6 items long and can be found at this link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DDHTB6Y